Canton of Laufen
The canton of Laufen ( French Canton de Lauffon ) was a canton of the First French Republic and the First Empire on the territory of what is now the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland .
Mont-Terrible department
It was created on March 23, 1793 with the formal annexation of the Raurak Republic decided by the French National Convention . The canton was part of the Delsberg district in the newly created Mont-Terrible department and comprised ten municipalities:
- Blues
- Brislach
- Castle in the Leimental
- Things
- Laufen (main town)
- Liesberg
- Nenzlingen
- Röschenz
- elections
- To force
According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton of Laufen had 3334 inhabitants, of whom 847 were eligible to vote.
Haut-Rhin department
According to the law of 28th Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800), the canton of Reinach was abolished and merged with the canton of Laufen. The enlarged canton now belonged to the Arrondissement of Delsberg in the Haut-Rhin department and comprised 21 municipalities:
Based on the figures in the circular from 1797, the canton of Laufen had 8,240 inhabitants, of which 2,083 were eligible to vote. By resolution of the Congress of Vienna on March 20, 1815, the territory was added to the Canton of Basel and the Canton of Bern ; since 1994 it has belonged entirely to the canton of Basel-Landschaft .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800 . Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris 1908, p. 283 ( online ).
- ↑ Loi du 28e pluviose an VIII concernant la division du territoire français et l'administration. (PDF, 24 kB) Université de Picardie, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).
- ↑ CHAPITRE X: administrative organization. In: L'almanach impérial pour l'an 1810. napoleon-series.org, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).